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The social-ecological trap is an emerging concept that describes situations in which self-reinforcing social and ecological feedbacks maintain or push...

Conservation of nomadic species presents significant conservation challenges because of unpredictability in their movements and space use. Long-term s...

Periodically harvested closures are a widespread, centuries-old form of fisheries management that protects fish between pulse harvests and can generat...

Conventional farming has been implicated in global biodiversity and pollinator declines and organic farming is often regarded as a more ecological alt...

The subsidy hypothesis states that communities receiving nutrient subsidies will demonstrate top-down trophic cascades where predators indirectly incr...

The relative importance of ecosystem services and disservices can change with landscape structure in a poorly understood way. We compare the impact of...

Improving the effectiveness of conservation practice requires better use of evidence. Since 2004, researchers from the Conservation Evidence group (Un...

Plantation forests constitute a significant amount of the wooded area in many parts of the globe. However, the extent of biological provision conferre...

Control of animal-born diseases is a major challenge faced by applied ecologists and public health managers. To improve cost-effectiveness, the effort...

Quantifying and predicting the distribution of naturalized plant species is a major concern for weed risk assessment and understanding the potential i...